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Bible Study The Loud Cry to Come Out of Babylon

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In Revelation 18 an Angel gives the 'Loud Cry' and Babylon is described in detail and the call made to come out of her, and the warning given that "God hath remembered her iniquities."

Revelation 18:1-5
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

We see the angel cry "mightily with a strong voice", and "the earth was lightened with his glory." Here is pictured the final announcement of the fall and demon possession of Babylon, accompanied by the divine call, "Come out of her, My people." The separation from Babylon is necessary in order to be emancipated from her sins and to escape her plagues.

The time of the loud cry is definitely located. It comes just before the close of probation and the falling of the seven last plagues, in which "is filled up the wrath of God." With a loud c ry or strong voice the call is given for God's people remaining in the religious organizations constituting Babylon to separate from what has "become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird." Babylon includes the mother and the large family of daughters, all of whom have fallen and been taken possession of by Satanic agencies.

The loud cry is the final message of salvation during the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as prophesized in the last days, a call which will bring every human being to a final and irrevocable decision. The latter rain furnishes the power so that the message can be quickly finished and bring any of Gods people out of Babylon.

It is evident that the purpose of the loud cry is to call out of Babylon all who had not previously made the separation. This must be done before probation closes and the plagues fall. The Lord designates those called out as "My people" to escape from Babylon, a doomed spiritual entity which is followed in wonder by the world.

Why the great urgency to come out and separate from it, because Babylon has become completely possessed and controlled by satanic forces, has fallen to an all-time low level of spiritual life, and is clearly a unfitting dwelling place for the people of God. The sins of Babylon, like the tower of Babel in ancient Babylon, have piled up until they have "reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered their iniquities." Just as the angels hurried Lot and his family out of the doomed city of Sodom before its destruction, so the saints of God must be hastened out of the final spiritual city of destruction before the wrath divine brings it to a deserved end.

When Peter wrote his first epistle, he concluded by saying, "The church that is in Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you" (1 Peter 5:13, KJV). In the Roman Catholic Douay Version of the Bible, the footnote to this verse says, 'Babylon. Figuratively Rome.' During the Protestant Reformation all leaders taught essentially the same, from Luther, in 1520, onward. These men were scattered over Germany, Switzerland, France, and England. In Britain were men like William Tyndale, Bishops Ridley and Hooper, Archbishop Cranmer, Bishops Bale, Jewell, and Coverdale, and John Knox and others. Bishops Ridley's farewell letter before his martyrdom, in 1555, repeatedly referred to "Babylon," and called for separation from Rome. We see the rise of the woman on the scarlet-colored beast which is Babylon, clearly the Papacy, the doomed spiritual entity that Gods people must come out of.
 
When Pagan Rome fell, the rise of Papal Rome was more of a transition into a religious-political government and is the woman riding a scarlet-colored beast, and prophecy tells us the Roman Catholic Church moves on until end with the kings of the earth committing fornication with her, but her doom is coming.

Today we see the kings and leaders, and the world, looking more and more to the Pope for guidance in national and religious affairs. It is this mixing of the two that allows the advance the church's authority and develops the fornication of the kings or world powers with the church.

The system with political and monetary side has not fallen although the religious and spiritual side is dead or dying for the most part, you can see it in the empty Cathedrals and Catholic churches. But the daughter churches also are going to suffer as they continue its practices and joining its call for ecumenism to unite the world under its lead and its goal of a united world religion under head, the Pope, which we see them slowly drifting towards.

We see the complete sequence given in Revelation 14...
Revelation 14:6-11
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

So what is the prophecy about, what is the wine of Babylon and who is drinking it and receiving its mark..
 
Babylon being revealed the precursor of all those Empires that are her predecessors with the last one being the revived Roman Empire whose deadly wound was healed in 1929 have always come to kill, steal and destroy those who have faith in God and His son Christ Jesus, John 10:10.

God gave warning, Isaiah 13:19; 14:22, to all those who have followed after her and have made themselves rich through her abundance. Many will become even more dependent on her during the timing of Gods great wrath during the seven trumpet judgments that will destroy much of the earth’s resources as they are made rich by the abundance that is stored up by the Jesuit militant priesthood in all nations.

God created every one of us as He breathed life into us making us a living soul, Genesis 2:7, but soon iniquity was found in the hearts of many as they turned away from God to follow after other gods and making themselves their own god. It repented God that He made man, but has always found favor in those who have faith in Him, Genesis 6:6-13.

God says to come out of her and repent of your sin and no longer partake of her sins so ye will not receive the same punishment she is about to be given. During this time of the seventh trumpet there is a greater tribulation of Gods final wrath on those who refuse to repent that has never been seen on such a universal scale and will never be seen again, Matthew 24:21. God is still drawing man unto himself to repent and turn back to Him before the door of Salvation is closed forever when Christ returns for His Bride.

Babylon in the OT rewarded the Israelites with much persecution, even to death as they tried to ware out the saints of God in order to make them bow down to Babylon's dependency and their gods. The revived Roman Empire whose deadly wound came in 1798 and was healed in 1929 carries on the same destruction as her predecessor Babylon unto the end of days before the great and terrible day of the Lords return. She will receive a double portion for her wrath against the saints of God as God destroys her like He did with Sodom and Gomorrah, Daniel 7:24-26, Genesis 19:1-29, Isaiah 14:12-23.
 
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